On-line formant shifting as a function of F0

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Publication date 2009
Journal Interspeech
Event 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Interspeech 2009
Volume | Issue number 10
Pages (from-to) 464-467
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract We investigate whether there is a within-speaker effect of a higher F0 on the values of the first and the second formant. When asked to speak at a high F0, speakers turn out to raise their formants as well. In the F1 dimension this effect is greater for women than for men. We conclude that while a general formant raising effect might be due to the physiology of a high F0 (i.e. raised larynx and shorter vocal tract), a plausible explanation for the gender-dependent size of the effect on F1 values can only be found in the undersampling hypothesis.
Document type Article
Note Proceedings title: Speech and intelligence: proceedings of Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, UK Publisher: International Speech Communication Association Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language English
Published at http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/paul/papers/ChlaBoerPodlF0F1.pdf
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